Proximity and rollover tooltips are displayed for civil drawing objects. You can control the display of tooltips for the drawing, for an object type, or for a specific object.
- A rollover tooltip displays information about an object when you hover the cursor directly over it. If the object highlighting setting is on, the object will be highlighted when this tooltip is displayed.
- A proximity tooltip displays information about the current location of the cursor with respect to one or more objects in the drawing. More specifically, it displays information about the proximity of the cursor to the objects. These tooltips are displayed without having to hover the cursor over any specific entity in the drawing.
The most important object information is displayed at the beginning of the tooltip. For alignments and surfaces, the tooltip displays the station/offset information for the closest alignment to the cursor and the elevation of the topmost surface.
If you keep your cursor in the same location, additional information is displayed in an expanded tooltip that shows up to four more items. Which items are displayed depends upon the objects in the drawing and whether tooltips are enabled for that object. If there are five alignments and five surfaces in the drawing, for example, the proximity tooltip will display three alignments and three surfaces.
Alignments are shown in order of proximity to the cursor. Surfaces are shown in order from highest elevation first, to lowest elevation last.
To control the display of tooltips for the drawing
- Click Application Menu
Options. On the Display tab, select or clear the Show ToolTips and Show Rollover ToolTips check boxes. Note: The Show ToolTips check box controls the display of tooltips for the ribbon and for dialog boxes, as well as proximity tooltips. The Show Rollover ToolTips check box controls the display of AutoCAD and AutoCAD Civil 3D rollover tooltips.
To control the display of tooltips for an object type
- On the Toolspace Settings tab, right-click <object> Edit Feature Settings.
- In the Edit Feature Settings dialog box, under General, edit the Show Tooltips value. Note: This setting can be overridden at the object level in the object properties dialog boxes.
- Yes: Displays tooltips for all objects of the selected type by default.
- No: Does not display tooltips for the selected object type.
- Edit the New Entity Tooltip State.
- On: Sets the default state of tooltips for new objects to be turned on.
- Off: Sets the default state of tooltips for new objects to be turned off.
- Click OK.
To control the display of tooltips for an object
- In any civil object properties dialog box, on the Information tab, select or clear the Show Tooltips check box.